LED indicators

[treva]

Can anyone advise me where to locate the indicator/blinker relay on a 2017 F3-S. Want to go LED & remove the ugly rear OEM units. Thanks Treva.

 

[Hypurone]

I do not believe there is a relay. There are controlled by the ECM.... This is why it is so hard to add an additional flashing brake light. The turn signal/brake light circuits are controlled by the computer and can't be separately controlled without and add-in controller....

 

[Rattlebars]

If you are adding additional lights you can "teach" the ECU the new circuit. Method:

Should your blinkers go into Hyper-flash, you can try the following procedure to fix this.
1. Turn the bike on.
2. Hold down the hazard light switch on for 30-45 seconds.
3. Turn the hazards off and put the right signal on and turn the bike off right after the first blink on the blinker.
4. Repeat the same process for the left side.
5. on my 2016 this worked to fix my horn problem by beeping horn on step 3 instead of putting on signals. Prior to that fix, sometimes my audio would go haywire when I beeped my modified horn setup. :yikes:

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[treva]

I do not believe there is a relay. There are controlled by the ECM.... This is why it is so hard to add an additional flashing brake light. The turn signal/brake light circuits are controlled by the computer and can't be separately controlled without and add-in controller....

So that's the reason I couldn't find it. I'll install the new LED rear blinkers, change out the front incandescent bulbs for LED bulbs [built in resistors] & see what happens. Thanks hypurone.

 

[treva]

If you are adding additional lights you can "teach" the ECU the new circuit. Method:

Should your blinkers go into Hyper-flash, you can try the following procedure to fix this.
1. Turn the bike on.
2. Hold down the hazard light switch on for 30-45 seconds.
3. Turn the hazards off and put the right signal on and turn the bike off right after the first blink on the blinker.
4. Repeat the same process for the left side.
5. on my 2016 this worked to fix my horn problem by beeping horn on step 3 instead of putting on signals. Prior to that fix, sometimes my audio would go haywire when I beeped my modified horn setup. :yikes:

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Thank you Rattlebars, I'll give it a go if I run into any problems.

 

[bikerbillone]

Waldo, is this you on the Spyder side? If not, sorry for the inquiry, just looks like your good tech stuff.
Bill

 

[Hypurone]

So that's the reason I couldn't find it. I'll install the new LED rear blinkers, change out the front incandescent bulbs for LED bulbs [built in resistors] & see what happens. Thanks hypurone.

Unless both front and rear LED's that you are adding have resistors, you will most likely get the hyperflash problem. I did, and even using the method posted above, I could not get them to flash evenly on both sides! I got it working ONCE! But then when the key was cycled it all went to ^@&*. Then it was one side or the other but never both again. I am not a fan of resistors so I bailed on the LED's and went with brighter incandescent units along with my flashing LED brake/tail light bar.... Best of luck to you!

 

[Rattlebars]

Waldo, is this you on the Spyder side? If not, sorry for the inquiry, just looks like your good tech stuff.
Bill

Unless both front and rear LED's that you are adding have resistors, you will most likely get the hyperflash problem. I did, and even using the method posted above, I could not get them to flash evenly on both sides! I got it working ONCE! But then when the key was cycled it all went to ^@&*. Then it was one side or the other but never both again. I am not a fan of resistors so I bailed on the LED's and went with brighter incandescent units along with my flashing LED
brake/tail light bar.... Best of luck to you!

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